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Joshua Gamson

writer, professor, and stuff
  • Hi
  • Bio
  • "Modern Families"
  • "The Fabulous Sylvester"
  • "Freaks Talk Back"
  • "Claims to Fame"
  • "The Ballad of Teena Marie"
  • Articles
  • Media
  • Events
  • Favorite things
  • Contact
  • Announcement of 2024 Silvers Grants for Works in Progress

  • Sylvester episode of Jake Shears’ “Queer the Music” podcast

  • Look back at Jerry Springer and “trash tv” on the occasion of his passing on YahooNews

  • 8-episode podcast series on Spotify (on which I served as Consulting Producer), Sound Barrier: Sylvester, and related stories on Jezebel and in GQ

  • Podcast by Steven Reigns, “Shaped by Sylvester: Tiki Spills the Tea”

  • CNN/HLN Jenny Jones Show murder episode of “How It Really Happened”

  • Amazon Music “Love Me Like You Should” piece about Sylvester

  • Atlanta Journal Constitution article on Sylvester

  • Kaitlin Tiffany’s Atlantic piece on TikTok celebrity look-alikes

  • New York Times piece by Jonah Engel Bromwich and Niraj Chokshi on celebrity apps and celebrity culture

  • KQED’s piece on “How the World Caught Up to Sylvester”

  • NPR’s piece on “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” for NPR’s Anthems series

  • Tracey Thorn's column about The Fabulous Sylvester and where it led her

  • A&E's Cultureshock episode on "The Rise of Trash TV"

  • The Guardian's piece on Sylvester's legacy

  • My Social Problems article on the National AIDS Memorial Grove

  • Billboard's tribute to Sylvester

  • "The Insidious Rise of the Microcelebrity," on The Outline

  • "A Crash Course on Trash TV," on The Outline

  • Huffington Post piece on 2016 celebrity losses

  • Review of Modern Families in Sociological Forum

  • Modern Families on The Guardian's Best Books of 2016 list

  • My review of the Weiner documentary in Contexts

  • BBC Radio 4 radio programme about Sylvester

  • Review of Modern Families in Contexts

  • Review Modern Families in de Volkskrant (Netherlands)

  • Excerpt of Modern Families in Utne Reader

  • Modern Families a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction

  • Some of my thoughts on how Modern Families connects to ongoing struggles for reproductive justice

  • Review of Modern Families in Times Literary Supplement

  • Review of Modern Families in Philadelphia Gay News

  • Review of Modern Families at PsychCentral

  • Review of Modern Families in Brainchild Magazine

  • Modern Families on Ted Talks Holiday Reading List

  • Yahoo's Lisa Belkin on new family formations

  • Review of Modern Families in Times Higher Education

  • Review of Modern Families in In These Times

  • Interview about Modern Families on "The Kathleen Dunn Show" (Wisconsin Public Radio)

  • Interview about Modern Families on "In Deep with Angie Coiro"

  • Interview about Modern Families on "Insight" (Progressive Radio Network)

  • Interview about Modern Families on "MyNDTalk" (Pacifica Radio Network)

  • Interview about Modern Families on "The Leonard Lopate Show" (WNYC)

  • Interview about Modern Families on "The Frankie Boyer Show"

  • Interview about Modern Families on "All Sides" (WOSU)

  • Interview about Modern Families on "Mississippi Edition" (Mississippi Public Broadcasting)

  • Some of my thoughts on the commercial marketing of family diversity (Contemporary Council on Families blog and Psychology Today)

  • Interview about Modern Families on "AM Ocala Live" (WOCA)

  • Interview about Modern Families with Marilyn Pittman on "Out on the Bay" (KALW)

  • The New Republic's Suzy Khimm on what marriage does and could mean for parents, LGBT families, and kinship

  • Thinking about what's next after the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision (Contexts Magazine)

  • Some of my thoughts on Father's Day (and Mother's Day), ambivalent as always (NYU Press blog)

  • Social scientists on fame, as interpreted by L.A. Times writer Devon Maloney

  • CASBS Announces Class of 2015-16.

  • "Dropping Knowledge, Drinks in Hand," about Raising the Bar in San Francisco, in which 20 professors (including me) gave talks in 20 different bars.

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